Guard-rail.



B. N, STROM.

. GUARD RAIL.

APPLICATION FILED 111:0. 6, 1912.

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GUARD RAIL.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 6, 1912.

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UNITED STATES ratrnntr OFFICE.-

EUGENE N. STROM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO PETTIBONE'MULLIKEN00., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

GUARD-RAIL.

- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 18, 1913.

Application filed December 6, 1912. Serial No. 735,286.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE N. S'rRoM, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of I Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Imsame by a broken View in side elevation;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on line 3, Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is anenlarged section on line 4, Fi 2.

lily improvement enables the guard-rail to be cast, preferably ofmanganese-steel, in one piece, though I prefer, for the sake of economy,to provide the tie-plates of cheaper metal and, therefore, to fasten theguardrail to them; but this may be done, as hereinafter described, ina-manner to render the plates practically integral with the remainder ofthe structure.

The guard-rail 5 is a casting, preferably of manganese-steel, formed ofa relativelywide intermediate portion 6 with end-portions 7, 7 taperingtoward the extremities,

as shown, by inclining their inner faces 8 outwardly and their outerfaces 9 correspondingly from the points9 The ends are deflecteddownwardly to form legs 10, 10 terminating in expanded feet 11 withperforated toes, through which to rivet the feet to tie-plates 12 ofrelatively-cheap metal. Formed on. the inner faces of the end-portions7, to extend inwardly therefroi'n, are foot-guards 13 terminating attheir outer wider ends in webs 14 extending from the inner faces of thelegs 10 and expanded at their inner ends into rail-bracing heads 15. Atintervals along the intermediate portion (3 are formed thereon, toextend inclinedly from it, in the outward direction, legs 16 terminatingin tel-t 17, like the feet ll, through which to rivet them to tie-plates12, each leg 10 forming a part of a rail brace including the log, a web18 extending inwardly from it, recessed in its under side, as shown at19, and expanded at its upper and lower ends into heads 20 and 21. It ispracticable, of course, but not so desirable, for the reason stated, tocast the tie-plates as integral parts of the structure, instead ofriveting them to the feet 1 0 and 17, as shown.

In use, my improved guard-rail is applied to a main rail 22 to bring itstop-portion on a level with or even above the top of the main-rail head,with the tie-plates on the ties 23 and spiked down thereon throughopenings in the plates at both sides of the main-rail. In the operativeposition of the guard-rail, the legs 10 form its end-supports, the heads15 bear against the 'adjacent underside of the main-rail. head as bracestherefor and form with the legs combined end-supports and rail-braceswith the foot-guards as integral parts thereof. The 1e s16 formintermediate spaced supports for the guard-rail, and the heads 20 and 21bear, as rail-braces, respectively, against the adjacent underside ofthe mainrail head and the adjacent upper side of the main-rail flange,the heads being connected by webs with the 1egsl6 and forming therewithcombined supports for the guard-rail and braces for the main-rail.

The guard-rail structure, which is in itself comparatively light inweight and very strong, rigidly reinforces the main; railagainstvertical and laterally-outward movementsfi Moreover, its skeleton-likestructure renders it open underneath, thus preventing the lodgment ofsnow and the accumulationof ice between it and the main rail.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. Aone-piece guard-rail formed with end-legs and intermediate combined legsand main-rail braces for supporting the guard-rail in position relativeto a-main rail. Y

2. A one-piece skeleton-like guard-rail formed with combinedendlegs-,antlmainrail braces and at intervals with intermediate combinedlegs and main-rail braces. 3. A; onc-piece cast skeleton-like guardrailcomprising an intermediate portion and mtwardly-tapering end-portionswith footguards on said end-portions, combined endlegs and main-railbraces with reinforcing webs at theouter ends of the foot-guards andbraces, and combined web-connected legs and main-rail braces extendingat intervals from said intermediate portion.

4. A guard-rail of substantially the thickness oftlie head of themain-rail with 5 which it 006 erates zind having legs depending from itat intervals provided with transversely extending Webs and forming alarge Open space beneath the body of the.

In presence of A. FIsGIIER, L. HEIsLAR.

